Guide for the next Quiz (After spring break). Solve it today!

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You will need to hand out the answers for the guide @ 2:00 p.m. on Wednesday so you´ll have 1 whole day and 30 minutes of the next class to finish it. 

1. Why do we use language?

2. What is semantics?

3. Does the sentence “Colorless green ideas sleep furiously” obey all the syntactic rules of English? 

4. Why are the phrases “Walls have ears” and “A grief ago” named as metaphors? 

5. Write 3 examples of idiomatic phrases.

6. Why are proper names taken into account as noun phrases (NPs)?

7. Write down 3 noun phrases? 

8. What are synonyms? 

9. What are antonyms? 

10. What are homonyms or homophones? 

11. When is it said that a word is named as polysemous? 

12. When sets of words are called hyponyms? 

13. What are phrasal or sentential semantics concerned about?

14. What is pragmatics?

15. What are contradictions?

16. Why are semantic rules important regarding ambiguity?

17. What’s a metaphor?

18. Mention and describe the theories of word meaning.

19. Mention and describe the main lexical relations.

20. Mention the semantic features of nouns 

20a. Mention the semantic features of a verb

21. What is the argument structure of a verb?

22. What’s the function of thematic roles?

23. What is a discourse?

24. What are the maxims of conversation?

25. What does the theory of speech acts state?

26. Why are truth conditionals also called compositional semantics?

27. How do the semantic rules compute meaning?

28. In what is built the meaning of a linguistic expression?

29. why is the phrase "the boy saw the man with a telescope" ambiguous?

30. When does lexical ambiguity occur?

31. What do semantic anomalies refer to?

32. When are two sentences synonymous? 

33. How did most of the idioms originate?

34. What is a referent? 

35. What are homonyms?

36. What does pragmatics deal with?

37. What is the second situational context?

38. What is the principle of compositionality? 

39. What does rule 1 of semantics state for?

40. What does rule 2 of semantics state for? 

41. What is called deixis?

42. What would be examples of deixis?

43. What is known as situational context?

44. What are implicatures?

45. What is compositional semantics?

46. What do the thematic roles describe?

47. What are the presuppositions?

48. Structure the following sentences into tree diagrams.

a)  The child found a puppy.

b) The puppy played in the garden.

c) The professor said that the student passed the exam.

d) The girl walked down the street with a gun toward the bank.

e) The man with the telescope in a box.

f) The children hope that the teacher knows that the principal said that the school closes for the day.

g) The handsome boy.

h) Melissa's garden

i)  The girl's shoe

j) I am sorry but I am allergic to seafood.